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...achieve quorum at its most recent meeting. Over the past four years, votes at a third of FAS’s meetings have been meaningless because our rotating deans could not gather a sixth of the Faculty’s 700-or-so members—the minimum threshold for votes to become University...
...eighth. The development was perhaps a first in the nearly two-century history of the Faculty: a failure to achieve quorum in a vote on quorum. Chair of the Economics Department James H. Stock presented yesterday’s legislation, which, in addition to lowering the quorum threshold, would have provided new regulations for clarifying whether a quorum has been reached before business is considered. Currently, members of the Faculty have to call for a quorum count. “Right now you may guess that we have a quorum, but you won’t know...
...public policy and behavioral experts appeared torn about the effect that the proposal’s adoption might have. “If...Faculty members would only show up if there’s a high enough probability that showing up would matter in terms of reaching the required threshold,” said Economics professor Attila Ambrus, “then you would probably expect less people.” But Ambrus’ thinking had a qualifier—not every one of FAS’ approximately 700 voting members thinks like a character in an economics textbook...
...Baseball furthermore requires patience. Unlike most sports, in baseball there are no fixed time parameters and therefore no temporal obstacles for losing teams staging a comeback at the threshold of defeat. The season spans six months, with over 160 contests for each team, a time over which lengthy winning streaks can be gradually erased by tepid performance midsummer...
...using the title “Department of English.” English professor Helen Vendler was less than enthused about the revision, calling it a “routine change.” The Faculty also agreed to discuss a proposed lowering of the quorum—the threshold needed to pass motions—from one-sixth to one-eighth, at its meeting next Tuesday. The quorum proposal has been pending since it passed the Faculty Council nearly a month ago. When the Council decided to send the quorum issue before the full Faculty, anthropology professor J. Lorand...